Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe/Audio Cassettes

/ 2 hours
Read by Fannie Flagg

* Nominated for a Grammy Award for best Spoken Word Recording *
Here is a folksy and funny, endearing and affecting, southern-fried tale about two very special friendships.

In a small town near Birmingham sits the Whistle Shop Cafe, a place alive with the hungry, the heartbroken, the righteous and the garrulous.  The cafe is owned by sweet, patient Ruth, and by Idgie, irresistibly big-hearted and big-mouthed.  Their story is remembered, years later, in the Rose Terrace Nursing Home.  As elderly Cleo Threadgoode chats with her visitor - the over-stuffed, overwrought, menopausal Evelyn Couch - she casts a hypnotic narrative spell: honeysuckle vines and custard pies; births, deaths and marriages; sorrow and laughter; an occasional murder - and even the recipe for fried green tomatoes.  And as the past reaches into the present, the Whistle Sop Cafe touches the one thing missing from h

Fannie Flagg's fist novel Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man, spent ten weeks on the New York Times paperback bestseller list, and her second novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe spent 36 weeks on the same list.  Flagg read both of these novels for Random House AudioBooks and received a Grammy Award nomination for her narration of Fried Green Tomatoes.